Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 23 March 2023
319. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the courses related to health and social care that are covered by the accelerated graduate programme; the number of students who graduated from each course in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14481/23]
View answerThere are two-year professional qualification programmes available in the University of Limerick at Masters level in the disciplines of Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Speech and Language therapy. The data for the most recently available five years of graduates from these programmes is in the table below. This data was sourced from the Student Records System (SRS) of the HEA.
|
HEI |
Programme |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
|
University of Limerick |
Occupational Therapy (Professional Qualification) |
25 |
35 |
30 |
30 |
30 |
|
University of Limerick |
Physiotherapy (Professional Qualification) |
10 |
15 |
15 |
15 |
20 |
|
University of Limerick |
Speech and Language Therapy (Professional Qualification) |
30 |
30 |
20 |
20 |
30 |
